Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption, amid a “worrying ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...

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Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Crypto infrastructure firm Function has closed a $10 million seed round led by Galaxy Digital (GLXY), with participation from Antalpha (ANTA) and Mantle, the company said in a press release on Tuesday ...

String theory's equations give rise to a near infinite variety of potential universes in a 'landscape.' This landscape is surrounded by a 'swampland' of solutions that are incompatible with any ...

With the summer session underway, ESPN has revealed its first Football Power Index (FPI) Top 25 of the 2025 college football season. The Nebraska Cornhuskers have cracked the list, ranked 25th. The ...

The index of consumer sentiment dropped to 50.8, down from 52.2 in April and hitting its second-lowest reading on record. The majority of the survey was completed before the U.S. and China announced a ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the seemingly benign title, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research.” A more accurate title would have been, ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order on gain-of-function research, questions linger on exactly how the order will be implemented and about its potential impacts on the study of ...